Extension-chandelier.



C. M. PITEL.

EXTENSION GHANDELIER.

APPLIGATION FILED PEB.26, 1913.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

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G. M. PITEL.

EXTENSION GHANDELIER.

APPLICATION FILED 33.26, 1913.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO4. PHOTOJJTHQ. WASHINGTON. D. C

UNITED sTA'rns A -1 OFFICE.

CONRAD M. PITEL, or MERiDEN, CONNECTICUT.

ExTENsIomcnANnnLIER.

' Specification of Letters Patent; p t nt o tdg, 1 14. Application filed February 26, 1913. Seri a1No.750, 7j58.

citizen of the United States, residing Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Extension- Ghandeliers; and I do hereby declare the" following, when takenin connection'with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a side view of an extension fixture constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a sectional view of the same. Fig. 8 a transverse sectional view on the line ab of Fig. 2. i

This invention relates to an improvement in chandeliers for electric lights, gas or combination gas and electric lights, and in which some of the lights are fixed, while others are movable vertically, and particularly for chandeliers of the shower type.

. The object of this invention is to provide a flexible conduit for the movable light, and to provide a shell or casing in which the flexible conduit may be coiled; andthe invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as shown in Figs. 1 and 20f the drawings, I employ a comparatively large shell or casing 2 which incloses the usual spring suspension device 3 which is connected at the top with acoupling-piece 4 for the attachment to the usual gas nipple, and at the bottom with a bar 5 into which extends the upper end of an outer pipe 7 through which the flexible c011- ductor tube 8 extends. This flexible conductor tube leads from the upper part of the coupling-piece 4 through the outer pipe 7 into connection with the upper end of a burner pipe 9 leading to the usual burner 10 and electric wires or gas pass through this conductor. The cable 6 from the suspension device is also connected with this pipe'9. Carried by the pipe 7 is a crown or arms 11 which support pendant fixtures 12 for electric lights fed by wires 13 and passing downward through the shell 2 and following suspension chains 15 in the usual manner of wiring electric lights of the so called shower type. Instead of providing for adjustment of the spring suspension shown in Figs. 11 and? of the drawings, surround'the pipe 7 atintervals withcollars 16 forming supports for set screws'17 which extend through the pipe 7 and bear'against a longitudinally spllt pipe 18 between the tube 7 and the pipe 9'between which pipes,

if desired, suitable packing 19 may be placed.

By turning the screw17 in or out the friction may be so adjusted that the drop light 10 will remain in whichever position it is moved, the spring of the tension device 3 being suflicient to prevent its dropping. The friction produced by the split pipe is suflicient to support a light weight lamp with out the aid of a suspension device.

the burner 10 is drawn down the flexible conductor tube 8 which has been coiled within the shell 2, will uncoil and permit of the downward movement of the burner 10.

device Kin combinationfixtures, as is 11,. .mon' in ,6XtI1S10I1' chandellers, I may, as

When 'I Then when the burner 10 is moved upward the flexible conductor tube will coil itself within the shell 2 by which it is entirely hidden from view.

I claim 1. An extension chandelier comprising a coupling-piece, a frame secured to the coupling-pi'ece, a spring drum within said frame, a shell surrounding the frame, a pipe extending downward through the shell, a hollow rod extending through said pipe, cable connections between the rod and the drum, a drop light secured to the said rod,

and a flexible electric conductor tube between the rod, and the source of supply, said flexible conductor tube also extending through-said pipe and adapted'to becoiled horizontally within the shell beneath the said drum.

2. An extension chandelier comprising a coupling-piece, a frame secured to the conpling-piece, a shell surrounding the frame,

a pipe extending downward through the and the suspension device, a flexible conduc-- tor tube extending from-said drop light through said outer pipe, a split pipe surrounding the burner pipe, andl'screws ex tending through the outer pipe into engage-- .ment with-said splitpipe whereby thedi tending through said tube, a drop light secured tosaid burner pipe, a-flexible conductor extending through said tube 'to said split tube whereby the diameter -tube1may be adjusted.

burner pipe, a split tube surrounding the burner-pipe a frictional packing between the tube and pipe, and screws extending through the tube into engagement with said of the split Intestimony whereof, I have signed this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CONRAD M. PITEL.

witnesses FREDERI C. EARLE,

CLARA L."WEED.

ocopie lrof this patent maybe obtaineii for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, .D. G. 

